Man this just might be the most important thread on this forum
How many black people work for Vice/Noisey/Complex/SPIN/Rolling Stone? (UPDATE :BUZZFEED included)
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I actually applied for a job at complex that I was more than qualified for. I believe it was editorial producer/ on air talent. I produced a couple shows for thisis50--that did well so I figured I had the job in the bag.
Even had references of two people that work at complex now...never heard from them.
Meanwhile they got that Joo Emily Oberg or whatever her name is interviewing rappers asking retarded questions about secret daps and bullshyt.
We need our own publications cuz as long as we begging hipster cacs for jobs we're at their mercy.
Even applied for a job at rap genius (white owned) which I doubr I'll get either. At the end of the day these white people just wanna profit off Black Culture but don't want to Work with Black PEOPLE.
PS I don't care who reads this post.
How do we police this? What do we do?
I actually applied for a job at complex that I was more than qualified for. I believe it was editorial producer/ on air talent. I produced a couple shows for thisis50--that did well so I figured I had the job in the bag.
Even had references of two people that work at complex now...never heard from them.
Meanwhile they got that Joo Emily Oberg or whatever her name is interviewing rappers asking retarded questions about secret daps and bullshyt.
We need our own publications cuz as long as we begging hipster cacs for jobs we're at their mercy.
Even applied for a job at rap genius (white owned) which I doubr I'll get either. At the end of the day these white people just wanna profit off Black Culture but don't want to Work with Black PEOPLE.
PS I don't care who reads this post.
I have a solution for this, but this isn't the place for it being that this is a public message board, and this new Tumblr/Festival Generation of Black Kids are loss causes so meh
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Emily sucked hella dikk to get that job breh be niceI actually applied for a job at complex that I was more than qualified for. I believe it was editorial producer/ on air talent. I produced a couple shows for thisis50--that did well so I figured I had the job in the bag.
Even had references of two people that work at complex now...never heard from them.
Meanwhile they got that Joo Emily Oberg or whatever her name is interviewing rappers asking retarded questions about secret daps and bullshyt.
We need our own publications cuz as long as we begging hipster cacs for jobs we're at their mercy.
Even applied for a job at rap genius (white owned) which I doubr I'll get either. At the end of the day these white people just wanna profit off Black Culture but don't want to Work with Black PEOPLE.
PS I don't care who reads this post.
The_King_of_Everything
Yeah.
Real.
John Hull
You can’t see me!
I thought about this when I looked at that footage of Bobby Schmruda doin his table jig for Epic Records. Room full of women, most of them white, if memory serves. What are their qualifications? I've always wondered who was behind the scenes at these Hip Hop labels and publications, I imagine most of them to be typical hipsters (white) with communications majors. Maybe a few broadcasting/journalism heads thrown in for good measure?
So basically lazy mahfuggas with no chance of employment in the real world slumming at urban centric jobs that should be going to blacks and freezing us out. Majority of them probly with little to no knowledge of the music they are supposed to be experts of.
That privilege is a BEAST!
So basically lazy mahfuggas with no chance of employment in the real world slumming at urban centric jobs that should be going to blacks and freezing us out. Majority of them probly with little to no knowledge of the music they are supposed to be experts of.
That privilege is a BEAST!
Dawg.I actually applied for a job at complex that I was more than qualified for. I believe it was editorial producer/ on air talent. I produced a couple shows for thisis50--that did well so I figured I had the job in the bag.
Even had references of two people that work at complex now...never heard from them.
Meanwhile they got that Joo Emily Oberg or whatever her name is interviewing rappers asking retarded questions about secret daps and bullshyt.
We need our own publications cuz as long as we begging hipster cacs for jobs we're at their mercy.
Even applied for a job at rap genius (white owned) which I doubr I'll get either. At the end of the day these white people just wanna profit off Black Culture but don't want to Work with Black PEOPLE.
PS I don't care who reads this post.
Reading post and making this thread, I realize how much power these cats have over black music and how much they can shape the narrative of what's popular and who gets on and eventually who gets promoted and becomes succesful in the music game and how that in turn changes the course of music and culture.
I'm going to post this link to this thread
Controversy over all-white lineup cancels Awesome Tapes From Africa DJ night in Toronto
This is the end result of "cultural gatekeeping" . The complete omission of black people from black music, black culture, and black art. It's colonialism. It's basically gentrification of the art world.
Since I made this thread I unfollowed Vice, Noisey, Thump, Vice UK, and the Creators Project on twitter, but that was after I went at all of them and rolling stone and spin and [pitchfork and actually @ all of these mags on twitter and said the shyt I said in this thread on twitter, I called out vice for their racist blackploitation documentaries while not having any black employees. I called them all out and I don't give a fukk if I burned bridges promoting my music cause I dared to diss these gatekeepers that are holding the doors for black artists like myself to become known. fukk that, the dignity of my people is at stake and I got too pride to grovel at these motherfukkers knees begging them to listen to my music and feature my music on their sites. when I know what they think of my people when we aren't entertaining them.
I just realized this is applicable for all ways of the music world. They are literally everywhere. These hipsters running these mags aren't progressive they are cut from the same cloth as their parents and grandparents. I'm just absolutely disgusted their using black art as a way to continue this good ole boys club while we watch from outside.
Seriously. I dont' care who sees this either. fukk the media. fukk vice. fukk noisey. fukk complex. fukk pitchfork. fukk spin. fukk all of it
This is who controls the narrative for music and culture on a massive scale. This is who controls black music. This is who keeps black folk boxed in with Hip-Hop & R&B and Reggae while whites take every other genre from themselves oversaturate it with people like them and make the people who built the house look like outsiders. This is how white people are able to seize black music for themselves. As an artist myself, I am no longer afraid to address this cause seriously, this shyt has legit been pissing me off.
It pisses me off even more to see all of these black rappers c00n for the attention of VICE's racist fukkasses and shout out noisey and whatnot on twitter..they never show black peopel in a positive light yet black folks eat it up. I'm sorry my intergrity is worth more than the riches that come with white acceptance and I'm not standing for the bullshyt anymore.
This is why I fukked with Kanye on TLOP...he made it known, you want my music, listen to it on title. He forced them to write about him. No begging no pandering look at that tweet in the OP. This is why he said stop reviewing black music. At the end of the day they have no respect for black people.
It pisses me off even more to see all of these black rappers c00n for the attention of VICE's racist fukkasses and shout out noisey and whatnot on twitter..they never show black peopel in a positive light yet black folks eat it up. I'm sorry my intergrity is worth more than the riches that come with white acceptance and I'm not standing for the bullshyt anymore.
This is why I fukked with Kanye on TLOP...he made it known, you want my music, listen to it on title. He forced them to write about him. No begging no pandering look at that tweet in the OP. This is why he said stop reviewing black music. At the end of the day they have no respect for black people.
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Stop begging these publications for validation, fame, acceptance, and just have them write about us when it's hot already. fukk trying to get on all of these websites like hot new hip-hop, fukk trying to send them music. Just continue to work from soundcloud, bandcamp, and social media and let movements build organically.
Little Richard had the right idea. Back in the day when segregation was a thing and white artists were profiting off of remakes of black musicians songs for white radio, little richard pumped out the hits so fast that if you wanted to hear little richard...you had to listen to little richard. Black artists used to work like this back in the day...
And now look at where we are,
They openly telling us now our services are no longer needed. Cause they can replicate that saame formula and market it to a larger audience like chipotle.
I feel ya. You always bring up the festival culture. I have been dwelling on this.
Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes: Lollapalooza Security Guards Assaulted Me
This article made me think of it. As the prices for admission for all of these festivals going up, black people have pretty much been priced out of admission to these festivals and the crowds get whiter every year. It's a reflection of gentrification culture...building all of this cool fun shyt that us black folk won't able to indulge in.
Demographics aside, some of these festivals you'll see more black people there as security and on stage more than in the crowd. Which makes events like Afro-Punk seem like such an anomaly. But now that Afro-Punk is no longer free, I can see the crowds get whiter there and eventually it loses its appeal.
It's like now, there is a very obvious cultural restructuring going on, in the midsts of gentrification, black employment, black unemployment, reverse white flight etc. And it's reflected in the newer rappers that are being promoted. It's a different era. It's like black people seem to have no problem with this as long as they get that white acceptance....even though they are legit being written out of the fukking picture. Pretty soon all we will have is hip-hop and R&B and reggae and gospel.
IllmaticDelta
Veteran
this
I actually applied for a job at complex that I was more than qualified for. I believe it was editorial producer/ on air talent. I produced a couple shows for thisis50--that did well so I figured I had the job in the bag.
Even had references of two people that work at complex now...never heard from them.
Meanwhile they got that Joo Emily Oberg or whatever her name is interviewing rappers asking retarded questions about secret daps and bullshyt.
We need our own publications cuz as long as we begging hipster cacs for jobs we're at their mercy.
Even applied for a job at rap genius (white owned) which I doubr I'll get either. At the end of the day these white people just wanna profit off Black Culture but don't want to Work with Black PEOPLE.
PS I don't care who reads this post.
What did you do to follow up that application ?
If you are overqualified, experienced and entitled...you'll leave for better pay elsewhere
Why would they take that risk ?
A pimple faced college kid with no experience is easier to mould, cheaper and
probably working harder to get the job because he has nothing...
You'd sh!t br!cks if you found out it was some diaspora african/Caribbean kid
who got it
Yes. We know that. These publications only cater to whites as they should. Whites are the majority and bring in more revenue
They also have a lower bar/greater appreciation for black music as fans especially hip hop. Just look at all the vitriol spewed here daily
If black music had to survive on black dollars/approval alone... it wouldn't sell sh!t and the reviews would be SirBitach rep numbers
What genres are whites taking in 2016 ? Rock is on life support sales wise and only has a few surges every couple years
Eminem put a ceiling on every cac rappers head and Macklemore/Iggy are on life support....so whose left ?
G-Eazy and Mac Miller vs Drake, Kendrick, Cole, Sean, Kanye, Meek, Nicki
What integrity ? Stopt using the white mans language, alphabet, technology and punctuation you sell out
licktheballs
Wu-Tang Stan
Powerful postI actually applied for a job at complex that I was more than qualified for. I believe it was editorial producer/ on air talent. I produced a couple shows for thisis50--that did well so I figured I had the job in the bag.
Even had references of two people that work at complex now...never heard from them.
Meanwhile they got that Joo Emily Oberg or whatever her name is interviewing rappers asking retarded questions about secret daps and bullshyt.
We need our own publications cuz as long as we begging hipster cacs for jobs we're at their mercy.
Even applied for a job at rap genius (white owned) which I doubr I'll get either. At the end of the day these white people just wanna profit off Black Culture but don't want to Work with Black PEOPLE.
PS I don't care who reads this post.
Dapped and Repped
It really is. I bet most of them that work at those places don't even know more than 3 black people in real life. I've been seeing it happen here more and more in NY. It's sickening. Its to the point you can't deny there is a complicit effort to shape the face of the future of music. It's undeniable.
They do this all the time to black applicants at those places. This is what this is about. Why is monopoly behind black music yet another good ole boys club? Why are black people overrepresented on these blogs as the source of their content and media but barely the ones on the staff? Why do you not see this as a problem?
BTW, I've already had my opinion on thsi matter, you're not gonna change it. I'm still sad black folks falling for the okey doke when the evidence is right there in your face. I researched this enough, talked to people on twitter and in real life after making this thread and doing my research, to know this is constant when it comes to this type of thing. Basically by saying this you're basically co-signing dishonest and discriminatory hiring processes and the whitewashing of black music/art/culture and there's no part of me that honestly can respect that at all.
We can't have shyt cause people with your thought processes are too eager to give it away for pennies and nikka trinkets.
